Welcome to summer…or winter if you’re in the southern part of the world. It doesn’t feel much like summer today but I’m not complaining because the cooler temps are just fine with me. This week I’ve been participating in an online retreat. Not a writing one, but workshops that center around creativity. One common theme…
Category: Friday Ramblings
Friday Ramblings From An Author-I’m So Glad It’s Friday
Ever had one of those weeks? Yes we all have them and this week it was my turn. It’s been a hot and humid week and where I live that means storms. And storms mean the power and internet connection goes out more than you’d like. If you work at home that’s not a good…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Two Books Down and One to Go
It’s been a hot week…and it’s getting hotter, and it’s also been a busy week. I got rights back to two stories that had appeared in anthologies five years ago. I usually like to give them a rewrite and polish them up some more. Some I like to give a total make-over. It’s amazing how…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-New Book
It’s June and the perfect time to see how well you’re doing with your goals for the year. I’m behind with my fiction but that’s probably because I’m getting rights back to a book a month and getting somewhat swamped with work. At least I managed to get a non-fiction book released and here’s the cover…another one…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Selecting Books for Summer Reading
It’s been a week of rain, rain, and more rain, and now it’s back in the 50s again. Despite the lousy weather I’ve been looking at books to read this summer. I don’t know why but I always find reading in summer more enjoyable than any other time of the year. I have a prime…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Taking the Afternoon Off
I should add to the title of this post…sort of. It’s another beautiful day, 70 degrees and the sun is out. Where I live near perfect days where it’s not too cold or humid are a rare find so we writers have to take full advantage of them and hence this week’s early Ramblings. I…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Outside is Calling
71 degrees today and the deck was calling my name. Nicest thing about laptops is you can take them anywhere to work but wasps ruined my plans. They seem to be everywhere so I guess it was the universe telling me to keep working inside. Two workshops kicked off this week…yes, the bootcamp got cancelled….
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Almost Summer Reading Season
It’s the last Friday in April and the month seemed to fly by. May always has me thinking about summer reading and what books I’m going to put on this year’s list. I am way behind on my reading. I have six books that have been sitting on my Kindle since Christmas and I…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Another Short Story Class
It’s a beautiful spring day and I’m tempted to go outside and write but I’ll probably get distracted and nothing will get done. I set two goals for this past week. One was to get the first story in my new series Cowbear Haven finished and published. I achieved that yesterday. Here’s the cover. Once again,…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Happy Easter
There’s nothing more satisfying than getting another project crossed off your to do list. This week I finally got my rebooted story finished and actually published. Here’s the cover that I also designed myself. Something new I tried with this one was to enroll it in Amazon’s KDP Select. For those of you who don’t…